Salem Wastewater Treatment Plant

This is one of the many places where my Hunny and I go for "HOT" dates. I will walk you through the process of the Salem Wastewater Treatment Plant. (also known as the sewer plant)

When you flush your POO down the potty it enters the plant here at the "in" hole.



POO then flows in the water to the primary barscreen where the bigger stuff is filtered then raked out, shoveled, and roughly "DUMPED" into the dumpster.


POO and whatever else did not get caught on the primary barscreen then float peacefully on to the secondary barscreen which works in the same process as the primary barscreen.

Everything then continues on to the manual gate junction. Depending on how the operator has it set, the POO and other items may go on a journey to the ditch or the pond, which I will describe later in this blog.

This is a flow meter that measures the flow of gallons of POO and all other objects that have made it through the obstacles discussed so far.

From the flow meter all POO and other now swimming objects head off to the ditch to travel round and round! This is the near aerator. Aerators add oxygen to the water cause as we all know... POOS need oxygen too and the City sure does not want to deprive even the smallest POO of this much needed material!



This is the far aerator that does the same thing as the near aerator. We all know that POO needs plenty of oxygen! (NOTICE THE LEANING LIGHT OF PISA SHIT!!)

From here the water, POO, and all other flushables go on to the clarifier.

This wonderful work of art seperates the liquids from the solids. So POO is now joining all his relatives that have been passed. So in other words its like Heaven for POOS!!!!!!!

This is the pump room. It pumps the sludge from the bottom of the clarifier to the drying beds. This means POOS majestic journey has almost come to an end.

This is a drying bed that is almost ready to shovel. It is also known as a POO GRAVEYARD. This also has the spout where the sludge and POO come from the bottom of the clarifier. The wrench turns the spouts on or off depending on if this particular bed will be the final resting spot for "that" POO or not.

This picture shows the dried POO better than the previous one. Notice the cracks? This POO sure aint no Spring Chick!

This is a lift pump station. It houses 2 pumps that pump 300 gallons of water per minute. That is equal to 180,000 gallons of water a pump! Don't tell me nothing in Salem ever does anything!

From the lift pump station it lifts the water up hill to the rapid sand filters! You can really walk on top of this building! Just hope you dont fall in! The rapid sand filters filter the clean water off the top of the clarifier. It could be clean enough to drink! I believe this is where the Best Choice bottled water that they charge a dollar a bottle comes from.

This is the top of the rapid sand filters.

This is water coming back to the ditch from the rapid sand filters getting a good "BACKWASH". Some objects are luckier than I am! I could sure use a good back wash!

These are the ultraviolet lights that kill any bacteria that may be left in the water from POOS trek through all the objects he had encountered while in this plant.

This is where the Sewer Scientist does all the water testing and records all the gallons that are pumped per day.

This is a weed garden that has grown on POO after he was shoveled out of his final resting spot in the plant.

This is a valve that sends the cleaned "PURE" dinking water into the river.

This is how all the "PURE" water gets from the valve to the river. It just kinda rolls down a whole concrete staircase. It is called a cascade. Like cascading to the never-ending story!

This is Lake Lottahockie. The plant operator sends the dirty water here during floods or during breakdowns. Chances are there is a POO here that just wiggled his way through!

This is a plug or stopper that keeps the dirty water from entering the river when the cascade is open. I did see some POO in here... it was just "kinda" hanging out.